Who Killed Palomino Molero?
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Author | Mario Vargas Llosa |
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Country | Peru |
Language | Spanish |
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Released | 1987 |
Who Killed Palomino Molero? is a 1987 novel by Peruvian novelist Mario Vargas Llosa. The book begins with the discovery of the brutally murdered body of a young recruit, Palomino Molero, from a nearby military base in northern Peru. Vargas Llosa uses the structure of a murder mystery to examine the darker side of human nature, corruption, and class prejudice in Peru of the 1950's.
The Work of Mario Vargas Llosa | |
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Novels The Time of the Hero, The Green House, Conversation in the Cathedral, Captain Pandoja and the Special Service, Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter, The War of The End of the World, The Real Life of Alejandro Mayta, Who Killed Palomino Molero?, The Storyteller, In Praise of The Stepmother, Death in the Andes, The Feast of The Goat, The Way to Paradise, Mischiefs of the Bad Girl | |
Short Stories: The Cubs and other Stories, Notebooks of Don Rigoberto | |
Non-Fiction Carta de batalla por Tirant Lo Blanc, García Márquez: Story of a deicide, The Perpetual Orgy, A Fish in the Water, Making Waves, The Language of Passion, Letters to a Young Novelist, A Writer's reality, La tentación de lo imposible |